 Now, I gotta go back to this because you mentioned the fact that you found that beat online, the YouTube beat. Now, this is a situation that people, they fantasize about, I want to do, I want to get, I don't want to get this beat or should I get this beat because this might blow up or I believe in this song, you actually got to be, it actually blew up. What was that process in terms of, did you actually buy it or did you just, I only got the money, I'm going to record and I'm not going to even buy it and then what did it look like in the background, like were you, was it too much trouble and all that kind of stuff when the actual blow up happened? Honestly, it was a very, very smooth process. I think what I did was I got a lease for the beat first, just an untagged lease so I could record on it and if I, because I didn't plan on holding it for as long as I did, it was just something in the back of my head, they kept telling me, nah, not yet, don't release it yet. So I got the lease and I put, I recorded on it and honestly, it was just kind of hoping that no one would buy it before I did and in my situation, it worked out because once I had the label and the management, they were like, all right, we need to buy this beat immediately and hopefully no one had bought it, I gave them more money than they were asking for it on YouTube, just like to be fair, you know, because everyone knew it was going to be big and you don't want to be the guy that, that, that paid $200 for a beat, right? And then the song goes on to make a million dollars because it's like, it's just not a, it's not fair. And, you know, I believe in fairness. Everyone, there's enough bread for everybody to eat. So I got lucky, but I would say for, for people in a similar situation, like, first you got to be realistic for yourself. A lot of people think songs are going to be hits that aren't going to be hits, you know, like, you got to think what, what is it about this song that is going to make it a hit? Is the melody so, so crazy that it's infectious and everybody that listens to it can't help but sing a hum along? Is it a concept that's never been done before and so crazy that it takes it to the next level? Is, is the delivery something that hasn't been heard that's going to catch up people's ears? Is it, is it good for TikTok? And you could, there's a dance challenge associated with it. If it doesn't have at least one of those things, it's probably not going to be a hit and you're probably going to be fine, not buying the beat or just doing the least, but, but you'll know if it's a hit, if you're honest with yourself and, and yeah. Gotcha. Who's, who's decision was it to get on TikTok with it? Um, honestly, I think there was a woman, Rachel from digital marketing, and I had been doing some stuff with trailer before. I still do stuff with trailers sometimes, but they, they were like, well, there's this new app coming out and they're getting like a hundred million new, new a hundred million. A hundred million new, like users a month, we want you to go on here. We think you'll be good at it. Uh, we think your songs could go. So they put all the songs on there and I had done a couple of videos just like, not really understanding what TikTok was or how to grow on that platform, but just using my song. And they didn't really do anything, but people liked the song Valentino and I do, do some, some miracle it, it got the right people that the right creators that needed to see it saw it and the song just kept going and going and going. And I caught on that it was starting, that it was going to blow up at probably around like 12,000 videos because every time, every hour I would refresh it, every day, every hour I refresh it would be another thousand videos every day, another 5,000 videos, 10,000 videos. So once I started going up, I was like, I'm going to, I'm going to make my own TikTok account and I'm going to continue using my own TikTok account and just make videos for my songs, for other songs, funny videos, pranks, whatever, just so that like people would know, oh, that's the Valentino guy and we want to follow him because he made that song. So now people fuck with me, not just my song. And now I could promote whatever song I want on my own TikTok. I got like 650,000 followers on there now and a couple months. But, you know, a lot of artists don't do that. Um, some people, they'll never want to be on TikTok just because they feel like it doesn't fit their brand or whatever, or they're going to be super late to when, when everybody's there and it's obvious for them. But even now, like a lot of artists who are moving now and getting songs blow up on there, they're not thinking about, yo, I need to actually create content. I have a hard time getting artists to create content when we're making their songs take off. Cause there's like, okay, yeah, I'm happy with the results that I'm getting over here. It's like, no, you need to do what you said. Right? Yeah. Go from, hey, I like this Valentino song to, hey, here's that Valentino guy. All right. And ho, I like that Valentino guy. Yeah. Next thing, you know, this Valentino guy has another song and now you, you know, you're just 24k golden. You know, like, like they're not willing to take it through that process while it's free and easy. And you have something recognized on that. You can be recognized for, like, um, when, what was your experience as a content creator on that side of things? Did you feel like it flowed naturally for you? Or, um, was there a kind of like a few, a period of like bumping your head and having to figure it out? Uh, there was definitely, it was a learning process, you know, uh, luckily for me, I just turned 19 in November. So I'm at the age where, where I think it would be easier if I was in high school because it's like organic, everyone's using TikTok. And now people are using TikTok at my age, but it's like, it's still, it's, it's not a platform that we grew up on. Like we're not being introduced to it at the same talk, excuse me, at the same time that we were introduced, Instagram or Twitter. So it was a lot of just watching videos, just always being on TikTok and just letting my brain like soak it up. Like, all right, what is doing well? What is on my for you page? And then also reaching out with TikTokers. Like you think TikTokers don't want to meet up and collab with a rapper? Like most TikTokers are just regular people that, that, that blew up or that want to do social media. And for me, like being a rapper is like the coolest thing that, that you could do. Basketball players want to be rappers, man, but then throughout the patch wants to be a rapper, like every time you see a rapper, like, so, so, so I leveraged that too, to, to collab with other people that were more familiar with the platform and that could, that could give me knowledge about how to best use the platform too. So, so steady learning, researching yourself and then leveraging other people's knowledge and flipping, understanding your position. So I think one thing that I think that's going to help you win big bro is multiple times out of this conversation. I've heard you have self-awareness about your position at the moment. And then that allows you to flip it to the next point. Right? Yeah. Right. Cause a lot of people don't understand being a rapper is a thing. Being having a certain stigma. Well, listen, you stick with that negatively, but like having a certain perspective that people view it, do you as, even if the numbers aren't there, there still is idea. Like there's some, I don't know, let's just say like Jet magazine or Essence magazine. Right. It's not a popping magazine or something to this day, but a lot of black people used to, you know, that was popping in the day. And if they asked me to do something, even if their name isn't popping, just because I have that perspective growing up and understand what that might look like to my family or something like that. Right. It's like just for all other types of reasons, understanding the position of where you are in the brand, like you can do a lot of things that might not seem to be justifiable because of how people see you versus the regular landscapes. I think that's real. I don't know, to me, that stands out, man, that you were able to kind of figure that out as far as like, Hey, I'm a rapper. These people are still normal, even if they got more followers than me or whatever, right? That makes me somebody to them.